Author: Krobea

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed all constituencies to organize conferences not later than Monday, June 26 ahead of a national edition in Cape Coast, Central Region. The party has scheduled to hold the 2017 National Delegates Conference from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, August 27. In a memo sighted by www.3news.com, constituency executives have been  directed to hold conferences as agreed at the National Council meeting on May 10. The executives are therefore “to furnish the National Party through the Regional Party with timelines of activities leading to the Conference by Monday, June 12, 2017”. The Conference in…

Children who have TVs in their bedrooms are more likely to be overweight than those who do not, a study by University College London scientists suggests. For girls in particular, they found the longer spent watching TV, the more likely children were to put on weight. Researchers say there is now an urgent need to see if similar patterns exist with laptops and mobile phones. Experts said high levels of screen time exposed children to a damaging combination of risks to health. ‘Watch and weight’ Published in the International Journal of Obesity, the study analysed data from more than 12,000…

A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington. Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain – a type of dress fabric – to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma. The rivals had correctly spelled words including cheiropompholyx, durchkomponiert and tchefuncte as each waited for the other to slip up. But Rohan misspelled the word marram and Ananya got two words right to win. She said she felt “amazing” after her victory, adding: “It was just fun to see how far it would go.” Could you have spelled these?…

African Union Deputy Chairperson Thomas Kwesi Quartey and the UN Resident Coordinator for Ghana, Christine Evans-Klock, are confirmed as special guests of honour at the Africa-focused thought leadership conference ‘Africa Dialogues’. The event is slated for Saturday, June 3 at the Accra International Conference Center. The announcement is a strong indicator of support for Africa Dialogues by the African Union. Themed ‘Dreams We Dare Not’, the 2017 Africa Dialogues conference will feature powerful and change-making Africans drawn from diverse backgrounds who will speak on issues relevant to Africa’s achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and Africa Union’s Agenda…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern laboratory at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) -Soil Research Institute (SRI) in Kumasi on Thursday. The upgrade of the CSIR- SRI laboratory by UNIDO through the Trade Capacity Building (TCB) Programme for Ghana is part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen the country’s testing laboratories to provide reliable and internationally accepted tests for sustainable value chains for exports. The laboratory refurbished with modern equipment and technical assistance from UNIDO now implement laboratory…

SOS Children’s Villages-Ghana, a non-governmental organization, has embarked on a project as part of its Family Strengthening Programme. The project is aimed at sending about 100 children to school. Thus, it is dubbed ‘SOS 100 children go to school project’. Living in Zuozugu, a small community in the Tamale Metropolitan District, until recently was a challenge. More difficult was it for an average peasant farmer who could barely make ends meet. The rains hardly set in and the unavailability of stable irrigation facilities makes farming a non-sustainable income generating venture. This obviously puts the children in these families at the…

Chiefs have been called upon to lead the fight against rising lawlessness in the country, in the wake of the lynching and burning of army officer Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama last Monday. The National House of Chiefs says “every town and village in our country has a chief, and so [chiefs] must accept the responsibility for ensuring that even criminals, including thieves, who are caught in the act, are handed over to the law enforcement agencies”. In a statement on Thursday, June 1, the House described the gruesome killing of Captain Mahama as a wake-up call “and we must act…

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has signed a new one-year deal with the Premier League club. The 34-year-old has played 299 games for City, scoring 81 goals, since joining from Barcelona in 2010. Earlier this season, Toure was left out of the Champions League squad and manager Pep Guardiola fell out with the player’s agent, Dimitri Seluk. “I am delighted. I told myself the journey at City is not done,” Toure told the club’s website. The former Monaco and Olympiakos man played in the first leg of the Champions League play-off against Steaua Bucharest in August, but was then dropped…

New evidence found against the two suspected killers of former Member of Parliament of Abuakwa North Constituency have landed them back in court, two days after they were discharged. Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu, who were arrested as the prime suspects in the stabbing to death of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, were discharged last Tuesday, May 30 following a nolle prosequi filed by the Attorney-General. No reasons were given by the Attorney-General in filing for no-interest in the case at the high court. But on Thursday, June 1, an Accra District Court remanded the two prime suspects in police custody. They…

Following the death of army captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, friends and sympathizers have come out to share fond memories of the commander of the military detachment to Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region. Captain Mahama was lynched and his body partially burnt on Monday, May 29 after what initial reports suggest was a case of mistaken identity. Residents of Denkyira-Obuasi thought he was an armed robber. But questions have been raised why the army officer did not defend himself with a pistol in his possession. Sharing fond memories of the late officer on TV3’s News 360 on Wednesday,…